Java_Joe
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was a short lived TV show in the same vein as Power Rangers. Like Power Rangers it took existing footage from a Japanese Sentai-type show and added North American characters and voices to it. But there's a difference. Power Rangers took itself seriously, SSSS didn't or at least they didn't intend on it. Everything about the show was seeming done tongue in cheek including the cheesy acting and storytelling. Just look at the title. You can't take that seriously. When they have a computer virus that wipes out people's information online, suddenly the people themselves forget who they are. When you have a virus that affects cold as in the air conditioning it somehow turns people's "hearts" cold and makes them bad. When you have them wonder if in another universe that they all speak Japanese, you know they're having fun with the concept. It's very silly when you get down to it.The setup for the show is very formulaic but what do you expect? Something happens to get the bad guy angry and he works with the computer bad guy to create a new virus monster. The virus monster winds up in the school, where all the action takes place, and does stuff. The heroes all transform into their SSSS electronic forms with one being the actual robot and the others as attack ships / add ons for the robot and the robot and virus fight. Robot wins, evil guy is angry and that's that. One bonus is of course Tim Curry hamming it up as the evil guy in the computer. None of the others really went onto anything of note afterwards. So if you're up for some cheesy fun then this might be for you. But please, don't take it seriously.
WeyrdChic
I am not going to claim this show was good. It was never good. The plot was formulaic, the battle sequences bored me to death, and save Sydney, who was moderately interesting (aka had half a brain and a character flaw or two), the good guys were one-note cliches. So was Kilokhan. And I felt most of this back when I was 7 and watching it, probably somewhere in the show's target audience.There was ONE good element to this show, and that was Malcolm and his storyline. The idea was a big stroke of genius on *someone's* part, I'm not sure if it was in the original Japanese show or not.Malcolm was someone you actually loved to hate, yet couldn't help but feel a little sorry for, a supercilious jerk who was Draco Malfoy before the world knew Draco Malfoy. He was far smarter than the good guys, although his lack of people skills more than made up for this, and was the only one with genuinely amusing lines. His using Kilokhan and the viruses to fulfill his personal vendettas was perfectly in-character for what was created, and it actually made the story fun.I loved to see the interactions between Malcolm and Sam, hating each other yet never knowing that they're the cause of each other's problems in the digital world. It's actually a very interesting concept that I've never seen anywhere else. The Christmas episode where they temporarily discovered each other's identities was the first time all the characters held my attention, and it also played up on the three dimensions they managed to give Malcolm: the fact that he uses Kilokhan because of the lack of control and happiness in his own life, and his disillusioned belief that the virus lord actually cares about his wellbeing.If you take it outside the context of the show, it's a very interesting story in itself.
Don McCullen
While some may say that Superhuman Samurai was a second banana to the Power Rangers it was really a second fiddle to Ultraman (who came before Power Rangers/Sentai). SS was based on show from Japan called Grid Man which was produced by Tsuburaya Productions who in turn produced Ultraman.The show focused on middle schooler Sam Collins who gets sucked into a computer and becomes Servo who defends cyberspace from computer monsters created by classmate Malcom Frink and brought to life by Kilokahn an evil cyber being. However Collins along with his friends who help him with his fight with the cyber monsters don't know that Malcolm is in league with Kilokahn. They see him as stuck up know it all. Malcolm as much as he hates Sam Collins does not know that Collins is Servo and neither does Kilokahn.The Japanese counterpart does not last long and neither did this one, although it did produce a few more shows than Grid Man. It was fun to watch I admit, but at the time nothing could stop Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
DMan345
yeah i know a lota peeple didn't watch this show much but still it was pretty cool. i mean i usta watch it when i was like . .hmm 9 all the time. i barely remember much about it but i remember it being cool so its all good. anyways yeah it was a good show while it lasted, i mean it was a buffy the vampire slayer class show but action packed and cool nonetheless.
